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The Day I Had To Dial 000

Longest hiatus EVER. Almost a month. Hmmm. I have my reasons for my hiatus, but i’ve decided to post something today because it is absolutely worth blogging about.

2 days ago, i had to dial 000 (emergency services) in this case, the fire brigade. First time in my life. Haha. Wanna know the whole story?

Jason and i drove to Southlands (3 minutes away) and when we turned off the engine it still kept running. After like a few seconds, it stopped. So we thought like ok…its all fine. But when we drove back, the same thing happened again. We thought it would stop after a while. But no….

5 minutes later…the engine was still running, smoke was coming out of the engine. We were like WTF. I swear it was hilarious then. We pulled out the battery line but no…the thing was still running. The freaking car was smoking SO BADLY. The metal pipes underneath the exhaust was turning orange (you know like when you heat metal)…and the thing seemed like it was gonna explode any moment.

So yeah…we ran out..called RAC (roadside assistance) which took forever to come. It was then things went from hilarious to panicky. RAC then told us to call the firemen just incase.

The phone call was a whole other story but long story short, they were here in no time, with sirens and all…not one, but TWO fire trucks. RAC came after that and they towed the smoking car out of the shed into the driveway and hosed the thing down. Our neighbours were so intrigued because its not everyday you get firemen in your streets 🙂